Graceful. Empowered. Masterpiece. Conference.

About the Organizer

Who we are

Lady Madelyn Patterson, the leading lady of the New Lincoln Missionary Baptist Church and Womens Ministry Director, presents a marvelous conference - Beyond the Masquerade:From a Mess to a Masterpiece.

God heals, restores, and can turn your situation around. God is a God of restoration and when we live by faith and make Him our refuge, He will restore us in due season. Let’s examine the meaning of “restoration,” or “turnaround”

Isaiah 43:18–19 says, “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland.”

You are fearfully and wonderfully made. One of the greatest gifts God has given us is the opportunity to start again—and without exception, we all need a fresh start from time to time.

Spirit Filled Speakers

We wear the mask to “hide our cheeks and shade our eyes.” So as not to count all our “tears and cries.” Not only do we wear the mask, but far too often we actually become the mask. We are so good at masking our masked hurt, and masking our deception that truth be told, nobody really knows who we are….and sometimes, we forget who we are supposed to be.

Mime Ministry, Praise and Worship

A powerful spiritual worship experience is in store for each conference participant as we are led by gospel recording artists in song and praise.

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2019 Speakers

Dr. TaNikka Sheppard

Dr. TaNikka Marie Sheppard is a mentor, minister and spiritual leader who helps churches, organizations and institutions positively engage and lead the next generations. She has had the opportunity to speak, serve and study in venues around the United States and in a variety of countries, including Canada, Jamaica, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Germany and India.

TaNikka is the newly elected President of Baptist Women of North America (BWNA), formerly known as the North American Baptist Women’s Union. This organization represents and supports four million+ Baptist women in the United States and Canada by providing networking, resourcing and leadership development opportunities and experiences that help them live out Kingdom life, especially in areas that serve the vulnerable. TaNikka is also a Vice-President in the Baptist World Alliance Women’s Department, which is globally devoted to help women grow to their full potential, unite in Christ, and work towards justice and reconciliation

Lady Kendra White

Leading Lady, Kendra White is the wife of Eric D. White Sr., Senior Pastor of New Zion Community Church. Lady White enjoys serving as a help meet to her husband's vision of ministry and strives to join him in his efforts to please God.

The Lord has gifted her with a passion for children, coaching and health; she currently serves as a mentor and volunteer volleyball coach for several youth organizations across the city. She has a heart for people and is a committed prayer warrior. Her life scripture is James 5:16, “The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much”.

As she continuously learns to walk in alignment with the Master's assignment, her favorite scripture is Romans 8:38-39: For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Lady Ruthie Carter

Ruthie Carter is the seventh of nine children born to the late Rev. Jeffery D. Green and the late Ruthie L. Green. She is a native of Waco, Texas where she attended school and met the love of her life, her friend,and husband of forty-seven years, Richard Carter. With this has come the blessed privilege of raising four beautiful young ladies , and even more so the honor of being called mom, Nana and God mama by these children she adores. For the past nineteen years she and her family have resided in Austin, Texas where she is a member of the Mt. Olive Baptist Church where her husband, Richard, serves as Senior Pastor. Ruthie has been a Pastor’s wife, for many years now. She accepted Christ as Lord and Savior of her life as a young adult, at the Macedonia Baptist Church in San Antonio, Texas under the leadership of the late Rev. Roland Franklin. At any given time you will find her wearing one of the many hats- wife, Pastor’s wife, mother, grandmother, Godmother, , aunt, sister, and more importantly God’s servant. Some years ago she began a very specific ministry for Pastor’s wives in the Austin and surrounding areas. A Hat’s-Off kind of celebration for the unnoticed but profound work these women bring to their individual churches and communities. For an entire two days these women are lavished with gifts, laughter, and a place to be appreciated and motivated to keep moving in ministry. Out of this ministry was also birth a mentoring group for newly serving Pastor’s and Minister’s wives, in her effort to render encouragement and support to wives in ministry in their pursuit of holiness, to love the Lord God with all their hearts, and to love their neighbors as themselves. She has also severed for many years as the Jr. Women Spiritual Advisor and teacher at her own church and for two years for the Jr. Women in St. John Association in Austin, Texas, where the Moderator is the Rev.G .W. Clark, pastor of the Mt. Zion Baptist Church. Most recently she founded a group called Mom’s Praying (MP’s) where Christian mom’s join in a weekly prayer group to pray for their children’s and their children’s children’s wellbeing both spiritually and physically. Ruthie’s passions drives her to souls that are hurting and hungry for something they cannot even articulate, Christ Jesus. And because her Christian experience is extensive and her devotion to Christ unquestionable, she has been a vehicle for Christ to affect many lives for the Kingdom. Her commitment in this one time earthly life is first ,to the things of God , to the loving support of her husband, family, and her church. This is what keeps her pressing toward the mark of the high calling in Christ Jesus. Ruthie is thankful that God would choose to use her in any capacity. Yet she is certain that it is through His grace, and mercy, and not because of her works of righteousness, that she serves.

Special Guests & Workshop Facilitators

Lady Kayla Freeman - Soloist

Jasmyn Patterson - Soloist

Ola Jobe - Breakout Facilitator

Featured Guests

Sis Jackie Robertson

Missionary Baptist General Convention of Texas South Central Regional President